Re: gvim and gedit

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Søren Hauberg wrote:

> Keith Goodman wrote:
> > Thank you for the syntax highlighting. How do I get gedit to
> > automatically recognize a .m file as an Octave file?
>
> Unfortunaly I don't know. Gedit uses mimetypes to determine which syntax 
> highlighter to use, but I don't think Octave sources have a mimetype. 
> But if anybody knows the mimetype of Octave source files, I'll be happy 
> to fix the syntax highligt file for Gedit.

Could you just add a line like the following to /etc/mime.types ?

text/x-octave-m-file    m

Just a guess.  Someone will know!

Mike